[mythtv-users] Intel i965 video buffers errors on frontend

[Mark Perkins]

On 21 July 2017 12:49:31 am Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:

> On 20/07/17 15:40, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>
>> My understanding of the discontinuous messages is that it is associated with
>> the implementation of the LiveTV chain which allows you to skip back /
>> forward over LiveTV channel changes. For the specifics of how it works would
>> probably need input from the code author JYA but my understanding is that it
>> is essentially informational messages only and should not be an indication
>> of a problem or a glitch.
>>
> I think you mean /program/ changes here. Live TV records each scheduled 
> program as a separate file,
> so that when one ends and another begins, there is file wrapping up to do 
> and the need to create a
> fresh file for the next program.
>
> When recording, this never happens, of course. Each recording is a single 
> file and the housekeeping
> is never seen, since it happens either before the program starts recording 
> or after it ends.
>
> If I am watching recording A while something is being recorded on another 
> channel (B), I
> occasionally notice a brief pause when recording B ends, but nothing is 
> lost. I if were to re-play
> recording A I would not have the same pause, nor would there be any defects 
> when later watching
> recording B.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
> _______________________________________________

Yes, partially. I actually meant both channel change and / or program 
change. I think it works over both. I guess - in a sense - there is not a 
lot of difference between a channel change and a program change to MythTV 
anyway.